We are merely mirroring the response from the admins. Most of this sticky is taken directly from their blog post. The mods here see that this is an important matter to reddit the company but also to most of the users here.

You are free to start your own subreddit and sticky whatever posts you'd like.

We ask that users use the same headline as the article. Otherwise mods would have to read every single story thoroughly and guess in a subjective manner which user created headlines were editorialized and which ones weren't. We've been doing this for years and you have no idea how many issues we open ourselves up to by having subjective standards for our headlines.

The sources submitted offer terrible headlines and most of the sources aren't exactly what the mods would consider ideal. For that reason we banned the sources which offered users the more sensationalized headlines on just about every article they provided. The users were mad about this ban so we reversed it for the most part.

The media is feeding you and everyone else these trashy, tabloid headlines. If you or others don't like that we encourage you to contact the source of the headline and express your feelings to the editors of those sources.

If you were losing membership before and are losing membership now, when did you ever gain followers?

When we were a default there were more people automatically added as subscribers than there were people who pressed the unsubscribe button, but there's always been about the same amount of people pressing the unsubscribe button, not there are just no longer people automatically subscribed, however people still subscribe and this subreddit still gets a ton of activity.

Yet they also have the "suggest a title" bar disabled...meaning you have to title it yourself.

We require people to use the same exact title as the article. New users think that we the /r/politics mods gave them the "suggest a title" feature and when that feature did not produce the same exact title of the article we had to remove posts and users would complain that our suggest a title feature was what they used (even though our wiki states explicitly not to use it) so in the end we disabled that "suggest a title" feature.

You have to title your submissions yourself so that you can copy and paste the headline. The suggest a title feature is put in place by the admins and we can't control it so we don't really want to use it.

The moderators of /r/politics do not try to keep the subreddit neutral, we try to keep it topical. We want to provide a place where people can come and see content explicitly related political policy/political figures, and provide a place where people can discuss that content.

The political opinions of the subscribers of /r/politics can in no way be shaped by the moderators, nor do we have any interest at all in shaping political opinion for the purposes of neutrality on our board. Simply put, we couldn't control what the majority of our subscribers think even if we tried.

We realize opinion voting is a problem and people will promote links and comments that they side with as well as use the up and downvotes as "agree" and "disagree" buttons. We highly discourage this and have posted numerous sticky posts about this subject to remind users that opinion voting hides minority opinion and that means it is, in effect, censored in the subreddit leading to less diversity in the user base and the ideas.

Nothing Benghazi related is being auto-filtered. Some of your post were removed for violating various sidebar/wiki rules. Feel free to post all the politically relevant Benghazi posts to /r/politics that you want.